Spargapises

Queen Tomyris learns that her son Spargapises has been taken alive by Cyrus, by Jan Moy (1535-1550). Spargapises (Saka: ; ; ; ) was the son of queen Tomyris of the Massagetai. Spargapises is known only from the writings of the Greek historian Herodotus He is not mentioned in the few other early sources covering the period, especially Ctesias.

Name is a Hellenisation of the Saka name , and is composed of the terms , meaning “scion” and “descendant,” and , meaning “decoration” and “adornment.”